The Lottery by Shirley Jackson -

Set in 1948 and published in The New Yorker, the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson describes an annual ritual, in a small village that leads to death

The Lottery brilliantly taps into that fallacy of small-town people and the facade of simplicity and naivety that we attribute to them The

thems As with several other themes in this short story, Jackson uses a single concept to point to a universal idea about human beings In this case, Jackson shows how

the ultimate dream home sudbury This document discusses key themes in Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery: sacrifice, scapegoating, and maintaining the status quo